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Picasso was born a Spaniard and, so they say, began to draw before he could speak. As an infant he was instinctively attracted to artist's tools. In early childhood he could spend hours in happy concentration drawing spirals with a sense and meaning known only to himself. At other times, shunning children's games, he traced his first pictures in the sand. This early self-expression held out promise of a rare gift. Málaga must be mentioned, for it was there, on 25 October 1881, that Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born and it was there that he spent the first ten years of his life. Picasso's father was a painter and professor at the School of Fine Arts and Crafts. Picasso learnt from him the basics of formal academic art training. Then he studied at the Academy of Arts in Madrid but never finished his degree. Picasso, who was not yet eighteen, had reached the point of his greatest rebelliousness; he repudiated academia's anemic aesthetics along with realism's pedestrian prose and, quite naturally, joined those who called themselves modernists, the non-conformist artists and writers, those whom Sabartés called "the élite of Catalan thought" and who were grouped around the artists' café Els Quatre Gats. During 1899 and 1900 the only subjects Picasso deemed worthy of painting were those which reflected the "final truth"; the transience of human life and the inevitability of death. His early works, ranged under the name of "Blue Period" (1901-1904), consist in blue-tinted paintings influenced by a trip through Spain and the death of his friend, Casagemas. Even though Picasso himself repeatedly insisted on the inner, subjective nature of the Blue Period, its genesis and, especially, the monochromatic blue were for many years explained as merely the results of various aesthetic influences. Between 1905 and 1907, Picasso entered a new phase, called "Rose Period" characterised by a more cheerful style with orange and pink colours. In Gosol, in the summer of 1906 the nude female form assumed an extraordinary importance for Picasso; he equated a depersonalised, aboriginal, simple nakedness with the concept of "woman"...
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Length1 hr 30 mins
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Publish dateNov 14, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Pablo Picasso, Photograph, 1904
3Biography
4Study of a Nude seen from the Back, 1895
5Academic Study, c. 1895-1897
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6Portrait of the Artist’s Father, 1896
7First Communion, 1896
8Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, 1896
9Self-Portrait, 1896
10The Embrace, 1900
11Woman Reading, 1900
12Le Moulin de la Galette, 1900
13Frenzy, 1900
14Pierrot and a Dancer, 1900
15Self-Portrait, 1901
16Two Figures in Profile and the Head of a Man, Studies, 1901
17Le Gourmet, 1901
18Harlequin and His Companion, 1901
19Child with a Pigeon, 1901
20The Absinthe Drinker, 1901
21The Absinthe Drinker, 1901
22The Burial of Casagémas, 1901
23The Burial of Casagémas (Evocation), 1901
24Portrait of the Poet Sabartes (The Glass of Beer), 1901
25Self-Portrait, 1901
26The Visit (Two Sisters), 1902
27Prostitutes at the Bar, 1902
28Poverty-Stricken Woman, 1902
29Mother and Child, 1902
30Nude Woman with Crossed Legs
31Portrait of Soler, 1903
32The Soler Family, 1903
33Old Jew and a Boy, 1903
34Poor People on the Seashore (The Tragedy), 1903
35Head of a Woman with a Scarf, 1903
36Life, 1903
37Celestina, 1904
38Woman with a Helmet of Hair (An Acrobat’s Wife), 1904
39Boy with a Dog, 1905
40Tumblers (Mother and Son), 1905
41Clown with a Young Acrobat, 1905
42Young Acrobat on a Ball, 1905
43Family of Saltimbanques (Comedians), 1905
44Family of Acrobats with a Monkey, 1905
45Naked Boy, 1905
46Spanish Woman from Majorca, 1905
47Boy with a Pipe, 1905
48Head of an Old Man with a Crown, 1905
49Interior Scene: Nude Woman beside a Cat and a Nude Man, 1905
50La Toilette, 1906
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